Message approved and issued as a status 1 (trial) message. (Valid for directories published after March 1990 and prior to March 1993).

2

Status 2 version

Message approved and issued as a status 2 (formal recommendation) message. (Valid for directories published after March 1990 and prior to March 1993).

4

Service message, version 4

Service messages approved and issued as a part of ISO 9735/Version 4, for use with that version of the syntax. Note: 1. For earlier versions of the UN/EDIFACT CONTRL message, each published by the UN as a stand-alone message, the version number to be used is specified in the message documentation.

Message approved and issued as a draft message (Valid for directories published after March 1993 and prior to March 1997). Message approved as a standard message (Valid for directories published after March 1997).

S

Standard version

Message approved and issued as a standard message. (Valid for directories published after March 1993 and prior to March 1997).

Change indicators

plus sign

An addition.

asterisk

Addition/substraction/change to a code entry for a particular data element.